Mintel’s convenience food market research reports provide a comprehensive and extensive overview of the marketplace including information on the convenience food market size and convenience food market share.

This report examines the eating habits of adults in OPHs. No one consumer product market will be examined, however, Mintel will explore a whole range of food products, with reference to how they fit into the daily eating patterns of people living on their own.

Food and drink manufacturers looking to target their products at children are increasingly using internet advertising. Internet ad is less regulated than other media and children are already responding positively to it: thirty percent of 8-16 year-olds say that they try food or drinks after seeing ...

We are what we eat – and what we drive and wear and, increasingly, how we live. The credit crunch and the rapid collapse of hitherto solid financial institutions are calling into question many of the basic assumptions on which modern consumer societies are structured. The pursuit of growth at all ...

Worth £721 million in 2008, the pizza market is set to continue to grow by over 5% in 2009, with frozen pizza being slightly more important than chilled. Many consumers are trading around in pizza due to the recession, going from restaurants to takeaways or from takeaways to chilled or frozen ...

Mintel last reported on the salad and salad accompaniments markets in 2007, since when, these markets have faced rising costs and tighter consumer budgets in the economic downturn. While the focus on healthy eating continues to benefit the market, consumer action lags behind changing attitudes.

Changing working patterns and the economic downturn are having a radical effect on the market for lunchtime foods. The time available for lunch at work is decreasing and an increasing proportion of workers are eating at their desks or skipping lunch altogether, relying on snacking throughout the ...